Are you a PhD student thinking about life outside of academia? Do you want to explore alternative career ideas?
On Saturday, May 7th, The University of Pennsylvania's Department of Religious Studies presents, "Alternative Careers for PhDs in the Humanities & Social Sciences" from 3:00-5:30PM in the Cohen Hall Terrace room.
This 3 paneled presentation will include two PhDs who have chosen a non-teaching career path in areas of curatorship, foundations, and consulting & writing:
Curatorship: Dr. Catharine Allgor (The Huntington) & Dr. Beth Citron (The Rubin Museum)
Foundations: Dr. Nadina Gardner (The National Endowment for the Humanities) & Dr. John Paul Christy (The American Council of Learned Societies)
Consulting & Writing: Dr. Jason Wilson (The Guardian) & Dr. David Engel (Wells Fargo Advisors)
RSVP: kastoler@upenn.edu Questions: 215-898-7453

RELS243 - WOMEN & RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD

This course will analyze the dynamics governing the construction and exercise of female religious authority in Islam. We will look at issues of gender and female religious authority with examples drawn from different Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority communities. This course examines women's lives in Muslim societies by paying particular attention to the ways women establish their religious authority, to spaces, networks and institutions that shape the construction of religious authority, to the impact of colonialism, imperialism and nation-state on women's lives, and to the forces of globalization and the emergence of women's movements that had a transformative impact on female religious authority.